Plant |
English |
Marapuama, Muira puama, Potency wood, Tree of virility |
Latin |
Ptychopetalum olacoides Bentham |
Plantparts | Bough, Cortex, foliage, Roots, Unspecified |
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Ungrouped Diseases & Uses |
Aids digestion, Alopecia, Anti-diarrheic, Antidiarrhetic, Anti-diarrhoeal, Antidiarrhoeic, Anti-fatigue, Anti-flu, Anti-gout, Anti-Rheumatic, Aphrodisiac, arthritis, bad digestion, Baldness, benificial effect on the digestion, Beriberi, diaorrhea, Diarrhea, diarrhoea, Digestive, digestive disturbance, Digestive stimulant, digestive trouble, digestive upset, Digestive weakness, dispepsia, dyspepsia, Erectile dysfunction, Erectile function disorder, Eupeptic, exhaustion, Expectorant, Expellant of phlegm, faintness, Fatigue, feebleness, Flu, gastric disorders, Gastric Disturbances, gastrointestinal, Gastrointestinal disorder, Good for digestion, gout, Gripe, Grippe, hair loss, impotence, impotency, improves digestion, Increases sexual desire, indigestion, influenza, Languidness, Languor, Lassitude, Listlessness, loss of hair, Love drug, Lung ailments, Lung complaints, lung disease, lung diseases, lung disorders, Lung problems, Male impotence, Mucolytic agent, paralysis, Poor digestion, Promotes digestion, Pulmonary Conditions, pulmonary disease, Rheumatic arthralgia, Rheumatic disorder, Rheumatism, Sexual impotence, stimulates digestion, the flue, tiredness, Warming digestive, weakness, weariness |
Women's diseases |
excessive menstruation, excessive periods, Heavy periods, Menorrhagia, profuse menstruation |
Local (Geographical) use |
Phytomedical used in French Guiana, Phytomedical use in Brazil, Phytomedical use in the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana) |
Ingredients |
  | alkaloid, Alpha-Pinene, Arachidic acid, Behenic acid, Beta-Bisabolene, Beta-Pinene, Beta-Sitosterol, borneol, Campesterol, Camphene, camphor, Carene, Caryophyllene, Caryophyllene Oxide, Cerotic acid, Chromium, coumarin, Ergosterol-Peroxide, essential oil, eugenol, Humulene, Lignoceric acid, limonene, linalool, Lupeol, Melissic acid, Montanic acid, myrcene, P-Cymene, Phlobaphenes, Stigmasterol, Trans beta-farnesene, Α-Terpinene, Δ-cadinene |
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